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A funny paragraph about DHALGREN and poetry: http://www.highclearing.com/archivesuo/week_2004_05_09.html#005326 Jim Henley's advice to poets includes: Read...
zvi@...
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May 10, 2004
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2375
Hi, I´m Marcelo, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I´m a librarian student, 28 years old. I´m a reader of Chip since 1990, And my favourite novel of him is...
Marcelo Joaquín
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May 10, 2004
10:10 pm
2376
I'm also from Argentina. Do you have any idea where can I find Dhalgren? I've been trying for a while with no luck. Apparently the last edition in Spanish was ...
Agustina
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May 10, 2004
11:33 pm
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Hey Marcelo and Agustina- Welcome to the list! We're glad to have you. Dhalgren in English was recently republished. I bought a copy a year and some ago....
James Comer
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May 11, 2004
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Hello: I´m new in this list. I have read Delany since a long time. I only know the sci fi books of Chip, I had the chance of read some interviews about his...
Bass-Kuroi
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May 12, 2004
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Hello Agustina! Well, In spanish you have the Ultramar edition (edited in Spain), in three volumes, that´s the version I own... For a original version, you...
Bass-Kuroi
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May 12, 2004
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Thank you James for the welcome! I´m glad to be here. What are the last Sci fi books that Chip had written? The last publish in spanish is "In Cyron they fly"...
Bass-Kuroi
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May 12, 2004
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2381
Hey Marcelo, Agustina and friends, It's not too surprising that you read Chip's older work and didn't see that he's gay (SRD has also been called "bisexual",...
James Comer
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May 13, 2004
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Hi everyone! Now I see that I focus the matter the wrong way. See Ya! ... ===== "Schreibe mit Blut: und du wirst erfahren, dass Blut Geist ist." Friedrich...
Bass-Kuroi
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May 14, 2004
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Greetings, I've been lurking for some weeks and I wanted to introduce myself -- my name is Philip and I'm an HR drone, but that's not important right now. One...
oschene
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May 23, 2004
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Delany and music... What a delightful story! And on that subject, does anyone on this list have any information about any surviving musical recordings or...
Mischa
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May 24, 2004
1:38 pm
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[The Disclaimer: I actually just signed on to this group, don't even really know how to navigate it and already I'm posting a question. Really, I do...
rebekah_sheldon
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May 25, 2004
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I would love to hear more about this, myself. The first time I met Delany I asked him a question about the modular calculus, but he was in a hurry and it may...
Ralph Dumain
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May 25, 2004
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As Ralph Dumain surmises, it's science fiction, pure and simple, and has no existence outside the novels. It's meant to sound plausible and to reveal aspects...
Ray Davis
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May 25, 2004
12:39 pm
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... Maybe this is reductive, but I guess I have always understood "the modular calculus" as being something like the systematized and sophisticated use of the...
Ron Henry
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May 25, 2004
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... science fiction in general constituting a practice of Delany's modular calculus, in the way it paralleled/critiqued/deconstructed the "real" world? ...
Derik A Badman
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May 25, 2004
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A great, big thank you to Ralph, Ray, Ron and Derik for your detailed, empassioned and quick responses, and in particular for the citation to Damien Broderick...
rebekah_sheldon
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May 25, 2004
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... That's how I read it too. I think the device of calling everything "informal notes toward..." is a way of saying "there's no adequate systematic way to...
Eli Bishop
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May 25, 2004
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I get the mailing list in digest form, so I hadn't seen that a half-dozen people had already said all of the above better....
Eli Bishop
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May 25, 2004
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hello fellow readers of Delany and Dhalgren esp. I am the moderator of the group listed below. We are a group of writers and readers , of artists and poets, ...
verlainelefou
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Jun 1, 2004
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I lent a 79 year old friend of mine The Mad Man. He recalled seeing, years ago, pieces of it in a gay magazine and was eager to read more. He writes: Many...
David Cozy
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Jun 3, 2004
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That is interesting, David. I was just thinking about The Mad Man a few moments ago. I had read The Mad Man last summer, I found it to be a delightful book....
Pete Lenz
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Jun 4, 2004
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... Relatedly, while on vacation in San Diego a couple months ago, I bought a very nice hardcover signed first edition of The Mad Man. Actually, it's doubly...
Ron Henry
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Jun 7, 2004
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This is a totally random post, since I haven't read and don't yet own the book (actually, a friend of mine offered to buy me a Delany book for a favor I did...
Anna Yudovin
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Jun 7, 2004
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2398
The details can be found here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-8195-6714-0.html I soooooo wish this is a sign......
vpoleganov
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Jun 13, 2004
5:46 pm
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... Or a sygn, anyhow? ;-) Unfortunately, I think it means no sequel is expected soon, since you'd think they would have coordinated the release if that were...
Ron Henry
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Jun 14, 2004
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And a Wesleyan edition no less! This is very exciting. -Pete ... Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger [Non-text portions of this...
pete lenz
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Jun 15, 2004
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... you'd think they would have coordinated the release if that were the case. I read Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand recently (January) and since then...
vpoleganov
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Jun 15, 2004
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I love this book, but aren't the last few pages a semi-trip over hands ? - Jeff being a pest...
Jeff Doten
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Jun 15, 2004
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I don't know. Maybe I was in a mood. I was very emotional at that time (returning to where I am now, after having spent 10 days with all the people I love and...
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